Roll up, roll up!

In the blue corner, Mr Simon Heffer!*

In the red corner, Sir Simon Jenkins!#

See if you can spot who said what:

The injustice and the insanity of removing charitable status would be immense. Most private schools do considerable work for their communities. They share their facilities, offer in some cases huge bursaries to poor but clever children, and take an enormous burden off the state. They did all this, by the way, long before the Government began bullying them.

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I might insist that anyone who wanted subsidised higher education should have spent at least two years in a state school. Just as taxpayers should not subsidise social segregation through state schools, so they should not subsidise such segregation through tax relief to private schools. Such places, noble as they may be, are not charities but agents of social apartheid.

We suggest you should turn to Cicero's more thoughtful take on things.

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* King Edward VI Grammar School (State, Chelmsford) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

# Mill Hill School (Independent) and St John's College, Oxford

Does this prove the theory that the grass is always greener on the other side?